Less than a month after the Cubs won their last World Series title, William Howard Taft was elected President. One of the minority owners of the Chicago Cubs at the time was President Taft's brother. The President watched the Cubs play at least three times in 1909 and 1910. The third time he saw them play, on May 2, 1910, they actually moved up the date of the game three days so that he could fit it in his schedule.

In 1920, during the presidential campaign, Warren Harding came to see the Cubs. One of the minority owners of the Cubs at the time, Harry Sinclair, played a major role in the Teapot Dome Scandal that plagued the Harding presidency. He bought shady leases on federal land for drilling purposes from Harding's Secretary of the Interior. The Sec. of Interior, Albert Fall, eventually went to jail for his role in the scandal. (Photo: In 1922, Cubs great Cap Anson met with Warren Harding at the White House)

In 1929, fifteen days before the stock market crash kicked off the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover attended Game 5 of the World Series, and watched the Cubs blow a two run lead in the bottom of the ninth. The A's won the game and the World Series.

In 1936, Ronald Dutch Reagan broadcast recreations of Cubs games on WHO Radio in Des Moines, Iowa. At the end of that year, the Sporting News conducted a poll asking for the most popular play-by-play man in the country. Reagan finished in ninth place. He went to Hollywood to become an actor in 1937. Fifty years later, in Harry Caray's first game back after his stroke, he received a phone call from President Ronald Reagan, live on the air. On September 30, 1988, Ronald Reagan came to Wrigley Field, threw out the first pitch, and went into the broadcast booth to do a little play by play with Harry Caray.

In 1999, on June 30th, President Bill Clinton watched a game from a skybox at Wrigley Field. It was four months after the Senate voted to acquit him on perjury and obstruction charges after he had been impeached by the House of Representatives.

Two of the least popular people in Chicago met in the Cubs locker room before opening day 2006; President George W. Bush and Cubs manager Dusty Baker.

Presidential Footnote: It's extremely likely that the next President will have attended a Cubs game. The two most likely Democratic nominees (Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama) have both previously attended Cubs games, and one of the possible Republican nominees (John McCain) has attended a Cubs game too. Unfortunately, he was on hand to witness the Cubs lose to his Arizona Diamondbacks in last year's playoffs